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MapInfo Crime Profiler
REAL-TIME ANALYSIS OF CRIME DATA, ENHANCING VISUALIZATION AND
IMPROVING EFFICIENCIES
OVERVIEW
MapInfo Crime Profiler is Pitney Bowes Business
Insight’s dedicated solution for Crime Analysts.
It provides a single package of capabilities for
applying common operations and a toolkit
to enable investigative or research-based
analysis. Along with core functions such as
hotspot analysis, it includes highly visual and
interactive charting and graphing capabilities
including sophisticated time-based analysis.
Crime analysis is a law enforcement function
that involves systematic analysis for identifying
and analyzing patterns and trends in crime
and disorder. MapInfo Crime Profiler enables
information on patterns to be analyzed which
can help law enforcement agencies deploy
resources in a more effective manner, and assist
detectives in identifying and apprehending
suspects. MapInfo Crime Profiler also plays a
role in the identification of crime problems,
monitoring and evaluating operations and
formulating crime prevention strategies. The
offering is a new module for Pitney Bowes
Business Insight’s, MapInfo Professional®.
MapInfo Crime Profiler integrates itself in the
main menu bar of MapInfo Professional and
provides the user with a range of useful crime
analysis tools. It enables interactive analysis,
allowing the user to conduct complex crime
analysis from within MapInfo Professional. This
direct connection allows faster visualization
with added simplicity through its dynamic
functionality.
MapInfo Crime Profiler Capabilities
• Easy to use and interactive hotspot map
creation (instantly see how different settings
change the representation of the data)
• Maps, charts and graphs, including specific
charts for time based analysis. These different
views of your data are linked, allowing you to
perform real-time “what if” analysis on your
data.
• Capabilities you need to select and work with
subsets of specific crime data, by series, type,
time, locale or other characteristics.
• Proximity analysis of crimes to known
offenders or risk factors and other spatial
analysis capabilities.
• Mapping functionality that allows you to work
with map data in a wide variety of formats and
types. This includes aerial photography, street
maps, demographics, segmentation maps
and more. If you have data coming through
from partnerships or other external sources,
MapInfo Crime Profiler is likely to be able to
make use of it.
• The ability to define force boundaries such
as beats and patrol areas. This can be done in
a number of ways and can incorporate crime
data, statistical data or other factors in the
process.
• Ability to provide maps, charts, graphs
and reports as a printout or in a variety of
other formats for sharing with all levels of the
organization.
Summary MapInfo Crime Profiler enables
you to quickly analyze crime
data and improve your efficiency.
Key capabilities such as hotspot
analysis, interactive analytical
investigation and temporal analysis
are key features of this solution.
Benefits • Generate hotspots interactively
to get better insight into volume
crime patterns.
• Interactively investigate the
detail behind your analysis using
the interactive analytical tools.
• Summary statistics calculated
in real-time.
MapInfo Crime Profiler
Figure 1: Identifying crime hotspots is an important step in strategic resource and activity planning. It can be used to determine changing trends and identify areas of specific concern. MapInfo Crime Profiler includes a fully interactive hotspot and volume data analysis tool. When creating a hotspot map, an interactive preview of the result is presented. This helps analysts to learn and use the system more quickly and save time overall in producing hotspot maps. This screen illustrates the full interactive configuration of the hotspot process.
Figure 2: The question “what settings should I use” is answered by the interactive preview that enables the analyst to see how various settings impact the resulting hotspot map, before it is generated. Once the process has been refined it can be saved as a scenario for re-use or sharing with colleagues. A range of algorithms is available for crime, demographic and geographic analysis. The results can then be applied to any map to provide an immediate view of the clustering of crime incidents, offender locations, resources or other factors. This screen shows a hotspot examining the density of all incidents.
Figure 3: MapInfo Crime Profiler helps address the “what if” question by providing a real-time interactive analytics environment. This environment is seamlessly linked to the map so the effect of spatial queries and relationships can be seen in an analytical context. The screen (above) shows incidents by time, category, day of week and geographical area. The map, graph and time series charts are all linked together allowing the crime analysts to select data in any one view and see this reflected in the other views. This is extremely powerful for finding trends and patterns.
Figure 4: The analytics automatically calculate summary statistics based on your selections, providing an intuitive investigation tool. Once you have analyzed the statistics, the results can then be selected on the map, maintaining the two-way link between the map and the analytics. This screen shows the summary statistics of a selection of incidents within multiple wards.
MapInfo Crime Profiler
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Conclusion
MapInfo Crime Profiler in addition to creating
hotspot maps, enables many different layers
of area based data (e.g. population, schools,
deprivation, housing, train stations) to be
analyzed through the use of the analytics.
Through pattern analysis with other local data,
helping to effectively understand the crime
distribution and explore the mechanisms,
dynamics and generators to criminal activity.
The analysis of persistent crime problems has
been used by many law enforcement agencies to
help identify, target and prioritize suitable areas
for crime prevention initiatives. These extend
to identifying crime hotspots for targeting,
deploying and allocating suitable crime
reduction responses. MapInfo Crime Profiler
significantly improves the ability of crime
analysts and researchers to understand crime
patterns, which will assist management and
performance reporting by providing consistency
of output and information sharing to improve
decision making.
About Pitney Bowes Business Insight
Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI) provides
a unique combination of location intelligence
software (including the well known MapInfo
Professional solution), data quality, and
communication intelligence software, and data
and services that enable organizations to make
more informed decisions about customers,
competition and market expansion. With the
industry’s most comprehensive set of solutions
for maximizing the value of customer data, PBBI
provides the tools required to more effectively
locate, connect and communicate with
customers and citizens in today’s global markets.
Leading organizations rely on PBBI solutions to
increase the accuracy and effectiveness of their
analysis and information delivery resulting in
improved organization performance.
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